1917II Sta7tford' s War Record 



and thus weaken the cosmopolitan quaHty of which 

 Stanford was justly proud. ^ 



The limitation agreed upon in 1916 was not soon 

 enforced, for with America's entrance into war, 

 the number of young men enrolled in the university 

 was reduced from 1500 to 800, nearly a thousand 

 undergraduates, women as well as men, having left 

 to enter one or another form of war work. I may 

 here add that 2962 Stanford men, including, of 

 course, a large percentage of alumni and several 

 members of the faculty, enlisted in the United 

 States Army; also that seventy-five students and 

 two professors (Dr. Robert Edouard Pellissier and 

 Dr. Shadworth Beaseley) lost their lives in the 

 service. Upward of four hundred others, both men 

 and women, took part in relief work under the 

 Red Cross, Friends' Reconstruction Commission, 

 Y. M. C. A., and similar agencies, the total number 

 in war service being recorded as 3393. 



Entrance requirements for the first year had Entrance 

 necessarily been drawn up by the president and ^^^^^^ 

 registrar. One of the earliest duties of the faculty, 

 therefore, was to formulate a permanent basis for 

 admission. But coming, as the professors did, from 

 many different institutions with varying traditions, 

 they were in agreement on but two things: first, 

 that standards should be of the highest, and, second, 

 that emphasis should be laid on quality in pre- 

 paratory work and not on compliance with a pre- 



* In 1893 it was found by careful calculation that our young people came 

 on the average 1080 miles, the institution's "center of gravity" lying not far 

 from Green River, Wyoming. Recently, the pressure of the high cost of living 

 has forced the imposition of a considerable tuition fee. 



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